Comments on: Satellite, ISS Images of Hurricane Ike

By: Martin Andrews

Martin Andrews — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:52:10 +0000

Poeple have asked me what it was like…Words cannot describe what a sustained 100pmh+ wind is like for hours on end…thats without the 140mph gusts!!!

The eye was very eery…quiet and quite calm..but after 30mins of realitive calmness it took only about 5mins for wind to get back up to full force again. At that point…we barricaded ourselves in the bathroom as instructed. Our patio doors were threatening to blow in.

Many peoples rooms in the hotel had the whole window frames of there patio doors blown in.

Coral had been blown up from the wrecked reef 500yrds offshore and smashed windows….4 floors up!

How can wind that strong be described!

The wierd thing is….i would love to experience it again…perhaps i need to change my career and become a storm chaser…but the clips you see on the news are not filmed when the strongest winds are blowing but probably a few hours before they hit.

Anyone else had similar experiences?

By: Martin Andrews

Martin Andrews — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:44:13 +0000

I was in Cuba on holiday when Ike hit us. Terrifying but an awsome experience at the same time. all of us were lucky to get out of the hotel alive.

Im from Scotland and used to high winds…this is in a league all of its own!

A beutifull country totally destroyed in one night!

By: Andrea Menezes

Andrea Menezes — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:38:47 +0000

Please someboby send me some pictures from the port of Port Arthur, after the Hurricane Ike, to have an idea about the damages.
Thank you and regards

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:27:02 +0000

marcellus:

You seem to be a little out of touch.

The Republicans have claimed tredneck welfare check morons as their constiutency.

See, since they can't win on the merit of their leadership and the strength of their ethics and morals, they play the religion and gay-bashing card and redneck idiots fall in line.

Just thought you should know. Be happy! Your party has the rich suppressive assholes AND the retarded religious zealot racists, sexists, and homophobes.

What a grand variety of conversations you must be able to choose from at the conventions..

By: marcellus

marcellus — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:32:40 +0000

Only in Texas! What an idiot you are. The people that didn't evacuate are the same liberal welfare check morons that didn't get out of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit!

Only hard working Republican conservative taxpaying Americans have the capacity to evacuate from a natural disaster like this.

Get a life.

By: Van

Van — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:20:00 +0000

This grandeur is contrasted by the 140,000 fools who ignored the order to evacute. Over one other of every 8 people in Galveston stayed when the Weather Service promise "certain death".

We may have the large number of Darwin award winners in history. Only in Texas!

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:57:55 +0000

We duck and cover Sally, either that or run to a safer place. That's the only thing you can do if you want to survive. I was really young when Hugo came through and even though we stayed in our house, it did a lot of damage to our house, even though by the time it got to us in NC, it wasn't as bad as it was when it initially hit land. As for the rest of the hurricane's, we've been fortunate enough to not have been hit by major hurricanes making landfall here in NC. They are amazing in how they operate, what amazes me the most is that the winds are SO high but yet they move so slow!!!

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:29:31 +0000

It looks like a monster and I'm glad we have nothing like this in Australia! How do you guys cope with all these hurricanes? The power of nature is awe inspiring!! Wonderful!!

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:30:13 +0000

I think Sarah Palin looks like she's doing a Lens Crafters commercial.

By: HugoSA

HugoSA — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:33:44 +0000

So – all those Texan republican voting global warming deniers are about to get hit by a freak hurricane.

Try denying this one.

By: Samuel Aponte

Samuel Aponte — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:46:28 +0000

Am at the Island of Puerto Ruerto Rico and let me tell you somthing the force of hurracaine Hugo was just incredible you can see the trees side to side until they broke or just lay down to the floor. Imagine a huge roof of iron steel brake like a pice of paper, well thats the power of a hurricane force winds. The sound was like a whistle all the time you herd the foce of the wind coming like you can say hey its there is coming wash out. Ufffff it was terrible.

By: RL

RL — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:20 +0000

Wow. I wonder if you can see it from Jupiter (the way we can see the Great Red Spot)?

By: Sultan

Sultan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:17:28 +0000

Beautiful and yet so dangerous at the same time.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:42:16 +0000

Please insert an "are" between "there" and "still". (I responded to this while still under the influence of all that awe and wonder!)

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:37:02 +0000

With all the grandeur of the universe paraded before our eyes on these pages every day, I think we sometimes forget that there still images of this planet that can inspire the same awe and wonder.

By: Thumpy

Thumpy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:40:23 +0000

Looks like cake yum

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:26:14 +0000

*whistles*

That's one BIG storm…